The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
LITERARY AND OTHER WOMEN.
Some Interesting Facts About Them
and Their Mode Of Life.

this summer rent, instead OF occupying, Eef
farm. Mrs Thomas has been known so long
as the woman farmer OF Tacony' that it
will seem odd to picture her i'll other sur
! roundings. Her title has never been very
! exact one, however. for the Manse at Tacony
contains but twenty acres or Whereabouts OF
! cleared land altogether, and has never adj
! mtted of very extended agricultural opera
! tons. The place is in reality a summer
| home bought by Mr.. Thomas, a retired
| clergyman of the Universalist Church, some
| years before his death; but, small as it IS,
Mrs Thomas made it wonderful example
| of the results to be accomplished by a
womans practical sense and business skill
| Her herd of Attorneys. though a small one,
| contained some OF the best stock in the coun-
try, her horses were thoroughbred MOrgans,
| and her bees-Alrs. Thomas is one OF the
most successful beekeepeTs in the Union
made her 10000 pounds of honey in year.
put my verbs N the past tense, for all
these things are no more. Mrs. Thomas Was
burned out last November through the care
lessness OF some tramp who found access to
her barn. She does not care to begin ct the
starting point Of her efforts a second time
| and viii live in New York city in future at a
pretty SPOT she has bought beyond the
Harlem at Fordham
Mrs. Mary l.. Barr, who IS making herself
know as Il writer of Scotch dialect stories,
OF u. She lost her husband, who was
Military Governor Of Texas, and seven
children III the space Of tWenty-fOur boQrS
from yellow fever, and found herself lett
with four little ones and SOC. on her hands.
In course Of time she drifted as everybody
drifts nowadays to New York and became
a goYerness in the family Of one of A. T.
Stewards partners. Her first tale, which
was written at the request and to crafty the
whim of her employer, dealt with life in the
old days i'll Texas and found publisher
with ease. She has gone on writing with
progressive rapidity since and her exuberant
vitality defics time. Energy throbs III her
every movement and there is overlooking
life in the nodding of the bows in the bonnet
on her head
Miss Alice Freeman, the President of
Wellesley college, is a young woman whom
most of her sex look upon as born under
lucky star. With her erect figure, dark hair,
big brown eyes, and the glow in her checks,
she looks the embodiment of nineteenth cen
fury WCmanhood, conscious OF strength re-
jOicing IN new opportunities, and eager to
put her just realized lowers TO tho rIoof.
Miss Freeman is n graduate of Michigan
University, as are 50 many OF the tcacn, ..
and successful wOTaen workers Of the day.
AS woman her influence over other women
Is marked. Professors and students Of
Wellesley alike are loyal to her, and COM
mencement visitors have odd experiences
now and tker when they seek the Presidents
room OF an evening and find CliscOnsOlate
graduate or two sObbing away in the dark
ness over forgotten glove or bit of lace
while the unconscious owner is enjoying the
festivities IF tine hour somewhere outside
Tho trustees Of Columbia College at their
centennial jubilation last week conferred
the degree Of Doctor Of Letters upon Amelia
B. Edwards ard upon Miss Freeman and
| that OF Doctor OF Laws upon Maria Mitchell
! Professor OF Astronomy at VaSsar College
In these hOnors tie women were associated
with such men as Andrew D. White, George
| William Curtis, George Bancroft, Chief
! Justice Waite Mayor Hewitt, of New
| York and Others not less eminent. Truly the
world moves and even the most conserva-
| tive of institutions are thrust forward,
though hating with an unwilling step by its
/ motion
Miss Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame, is a
Massachusetts, woman, daughter OF one OF
MAD Anthony Wayne's'' old soldiers. They
! say that she organized the first public school
ever started in BordentOwr n j., and she
was a copyist in the Patent Office at Wash
| ington for some years before the war. The
first gun of the civil war brought her to the
front and in the work OF the Sanitary Com
mission none was more devoted in the field.
She spent the last cent she possessed il
organizing q bureau Of records OF missing
men OF the armies, and SO useful did it prove
that Congress voted her $4,000 for services
| to the government. = As President of the
| Red Cross Society, whose ensigu waves over
| America, Europe and the best part of Asia,
she is the only woman living at the bend OF
philanthropic scheme of any such magni-
tude. standing as it does for worldwide
| beneficence on wheels. Miss BaTton's gilt
| for organization reverses the order of talent
| usually ascribed to her sex. She has few
equals in mapping out a plan as a compre-
hensive whole, while many lessor mortal
can put her to utter rout in the management
of details Miss Bartou's figure is a
contradictory one. She looks massive; Sic
is on closer view as slender and 1.-the as a
young girl.
Mrs. Lucy C, Lille dictates all that she
writes TO steno2raphers, two of whom she
has at her service, one in the morning and
one in the afternoon each day. Mrs. Lille
does not look like woman with worb
enough on her haEds for childrens stoIic.
and grown-up peoples stories to drive one
wild, it would seem. between now and fall
She is smooth-browed, unrutiied looking
woman, with hazel eyes and an IN
anxious way. Mrs. Lille is one OF
the literary women who are famou,
housckeepels as well and she makes Tor tht
three children she has adopted the contest OF
homes.
MIS-. DIIilc Oildtt w man, lilc luLuoI %
Poverty Grass whom one meets in New
York now and then, is quiet, gentleman
neied little woman with dark hair and eyes
and very shy Of any reference to her literary
efforts o. successes
Mrs. May Riley Smith, who has one Of the
sweetest voices among the choir of minor
poets, is the Secretary of Sorosis and, per-
haps, its most popular member as well She
is one OF the few women who know how to
| dress themselves SO as to be artisticallY
pleasing without attracting notice by depart
ing too far from the iron-clad rules that the
| COnventionaties lay down. With her oval
face and brown hair, slightly grayish now,
, she looks like a wCll-balanC,d woman ami
suggests the poet that she is.
Miss Larned. whose quantity suggestive
! papers "On the Roundabout Road have
been collected in book form within Il few
weeks past, has wrieten her glilnpses of
country living and old-time country think
ing shut up in Il city boarding house, under
the inspiration OF modern stone pavementS
and brick walls
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, whose lee.
lures on English literature have made her q
familiar figure East and West, keeps plea
SAINT home ON Fifty-eighth street, New York.
where she passes lnGch OF the summer, and
where one is always sure of meeting in
teresting people.
Mrs Kate Epson Clarke is another woman
autaor aud journalist who is MS proud of her
kitchen as of her library In her Brooklyn
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